I just look at it as a part of history and it is going to be there.

I am still trying to carve out my own name and my own music. I think that is part of my history and I am proud of that. Some people became aware of me through Miles and then they would come to my concerts. That's the only musical situation that I was there longer than a year. I was in Miles' band for about five years. Records label, and beginning with Black Hope, in 1992, he has continued to record with them. Since 1990 the majority of Garrett albums are co-produced by pianist/composer Donald Brown. He then recorded two albums with Atlantic Records: Prisoner of Loveand African Exchange Student. In 1984, he recorded his first album as a bandleader, Introducing Kenny Garrett, on the CrissCross label. A few years later he performed in the Mel Lewis Orchestra, playing the music of Thad Jones, and also the Dannie Richmond Quartet, focusing on Charles Mingus's music.

Garrett's own career as a saxophonist took off when he joined the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1978, then led by Duke's son, Mercer Ellington. His father was a carpenter who played tenor saxophone as a hobby.

Kenny Garrett was born in Detroit, Michigan, on Octohe is a 1978 graduate of Mackenzie High School. Since then, he has pursued a solo career. Kenny Garrett (born October 9, 1960) is a Grammy Award-winning American post-bop jazz saxophonist and flautist who gained recognition in his youth as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and of Miles Davis's band.

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